Amidst growing speculation that their two-year romance would end ‘within weeks,’ Cheryl made a shock appearance at London’s O2 Arena on Wednesday night to support her boyfriend Liam Payne at the BRIT Awards 2018. Yet their overly amorous public (left) and private displays (bottom right) – as well as over-sharing details about their wild sex life on live TV at home (centre) – was considered a little transparent for some, with friends reportedly calling the outing ‘a stunt’. Cheryl had to watch the former One Direction singer take the stage with scantily-clad musician Rita Ora (top right) to perform their duet for racy flick Fifty Shades Freed. Fortunately, Liam kept his distance from the Hot Right Now hitmaker onstage, despite host Jack Whitehall commenting on their obvious ‘sexual chemistry.’

Their study, which examined 120,000 people in more than 500 trials across three decades, concluded emphatically that antidepressants do work (pictured bottom, a list of the most effective antidepressants). Although prescription rates have soared in recent years – with 10 per cent of British adults now on antidepressants –researchers warned that only one in six people was receiving effective treatment for depression, suggesting that millions more should be given the pills.

Holly, 32, and Lewis, 34 (pictured together left) shared extracts from their diary of the first six months that their son Alfie Knight (pictured right) was born. Weighing 1lb 2oz with undeveloped lungs and bowl problems, the odds were stacked against Alfie who was born three months early. Holly revealed the milestones of their son's life including his first cuddle and first bath which took place 86 days after his birth.

Barbara Woodward, 56, (right) from Chelford in Cheshire, said the paved track to her luxury rural home (bottom middle) - thought to be up to a quarter of a mile long - was so vast she would 'struggle' to get about. She was found to be three times the alcohol limit at 9am when she went out in her £79,000 Mercedes G-class 4x4 to buy sparkling wine from a nearby store with which she hoped to make bucks fizz for friends.

It's one of the biggest nights for British music. And Rita Ora, Holly Willoughby, Ellie Goulding and Kylie Minogue were leading the glamorous arrivals at the BRIT Awards 2018, held at London 's O2 Arena on Wednesday evening. Rita, 27, had her very own princess moment as she turned heads in a eye-catching furry white dress while stylish Holly, Ellie and Kylie were also joined by Cheryl and Liam Payne, who put rumours of their relationship breakdown to bed.

James tweeted his support for Jack following his stint hosting the awards show in London on Wednesday. Fans praised Jack for his 'hilarious' hosting skills, as well as his 'savage' roasting of some stars.

Some unlucky celebrities commanded attention for all the wrong reasons as they descended on the red carpet at the O2 Arena in London for the BRIT Awards 2018 on Wednesday night, including PVC, feathers and lashings of frills. Pictured from left to right: Jess Glynne, IAMDDB, Noomi Rapace, Raye and Anna Friel show off their hair-raising looks looks.

The mother of a Somali student hacked to death with a samurai sword lost another son just five months ago in a similar attack. Fowsiya Abdi also lost a nephew who was fatally stabbed on the street in 2013. Yesterday the anguished mother called for anyone caught carrying a knife to be locked up. She spoke out after the capital's deadliest night of the year so far, when two men were stabbed to death within a mile of each other in Camden, north London, and another three men were seriously wounded after being stabbed or shot. Her son, aspiring accountant Sadiq Adan Mohamed, 20, (right) rang her as he lay dying, leaving her a voicemail message begging for help, saying, 'I'm wounded,' just moments after he was attacked by a gang of four wielding a samurai sword about 10pm on Tuesday. His brother Mohamed Aadam and their cousin Mohamed Abdullahi had also been stabbed to death in London, it emerged yesterday. Meanwhile, Abdikarim Hassan, 17, died after being knifed multiple times near a corner shop in Camden, north London on Tuesday.

They are considered the future females of fashion, but emerging models (from left) Gigi, Kaia and Bella paid homage to a vintage trailblazer on Wednesday night at the Moschino AW18 catwalk show during Milan Fashion Week. With a nod to Sixties sophistication, Cindy Crawford’s model daughter was a double for the former First Lady of the United States, Jackie Onassis (inset) who was considered a style icon of her time. With an orange pillbox hat and a fitted skirt suit, the 16-year-old was the image of the late president’s wife, illuminating the runway alongside supermodel sisters Gigi and Bella in exquisite floor-sweeping gowns and retro wigs.

President Donald Trump held a cue card between his hands as he met with victims and families of the Florida high school massacre on Wednesday. And while many of the notes are indiscernible - one is clearly visible - a reminder to himself to tell his guests: 'I hear you.' It seems the president had to remind himself to take the time to offer his guests sympathy during the many-hours-long meeting.

Thousands of students across Florida have walked out of their classrooms in protest over gun laws as they showed support for the teen survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting who are rallying in the state's Capitol. Students from across the entire state participated in the mass walk out to honor the 17 people killed in the deadly massacre in Parkland a week ago. The vast majority of teen protesters gathered on Wednesday at the scene of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High wearing the school's colors and brandishing signs. Thousands of others, including Parkland survivors, also converged on Florida's Capitol to ramp up the pressure on lawmakers to enact tougher gun control measures.

The study, carried out by National Geographic, showed that people in the UK now take an average of three flights every year but that hasn't stopped a third of Brits having a fear of taking to the skies.

A moped gang which uses acid and swords to steal mobile phones from pedestrians have revealed how they pick their victims in an explosive BBC documentary. Hiding behind fearsome masks, the criminals brag about the ease of stealing £650 iPhones from oblivious commuters, comparing to it 'stealing candy from a baby'. During a fascinating glimpse inside the gangs which have taken over London's streets, the criminals reveal what makes certain people 'easy pickings'. One gangster, calling himself Mr X, takes BBC reporter Livvy Haydock (right) for a ride on the back of his moped and points out how the gangs choose who to attack. Another gangster, called Topkat, opens up about throwing acid in the face of two people in order to snatch phones, before selling them off for up to £250 a piece (top and bottom left).

Studies show dietary regimes tailored from genetics could increase weight loss by as much as 40 per cent. Professor Les Sheffield has developed a £59 dietary report which recommends from six of the common food plans including high protein, Mediterranean and high fat for accelerated weight loss. FEMAIL asked seven serial dieters to try the regime and report their experience. Jo Hornblow (pictured right) claims she was able to lose two pounds in the first week of following her plan.

Two mothers shared why they track their daughters social media. Author Celia Dodd, believes children can feel smothered rather than supported by knowing their parents are watching each stage of their life.

Jackie Dibb (pictured with husband Robert at their home in Hull) was given a 'death penalty' in November 2016 by doctors who told her she was suffering from an incurable dementia. Distraught at the thought of losing her life prematurely, Mrs Dibb embarked on a spending spree in a bid to make the most of the five year she believed she had left. She splurged £700 on a gigantic American-style fridge freezer (top right), £4,000 on converting their bathroom into a luxurious wet room and took for the family away for a beach holiday (stock inset) for a total of £1,500. But shortly after, doctors revealed they had it wrong – and the bittersweet news left Mrs Dibb with the realisation she had frittered away her life savings.

Kelly Kinsella (pictured right with son Kean), 27, took her toddler to Manchester Hospital so he could be to be weighed and measured as part of the Government's Healthy Child Programme. But the parent was enraged after being told her two-year-old child (left and inset) needed to slim down when he tipped the scales at two and a half stone (16.4kg).

Stephanie Davis has told for the first time of the full scale of domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of ex Jeremy McConnell - and vowed she would never get back together with him. In an emotional interview, the former Hollyoaks actress revealed reality star McConnell battered her as she held her baby son - and crushed a glass into her hand during a blazing row in a London hotel. She suffered two severed tendons following the brutal attack and had to undergo surgery. Stephanie, 24, told of her ordeal after McConnell claimed she begged him to visit her home and said she still loved him in a barrage of emails, despite having a restraining order against him. But today speaking exclusively to MailOnline, she said McConnell contacted her first and insisted: 'It's complete rubbish, I responded to him not the other way round.'

The whiskers, nose, mouth and left eye of the cartoon cat on a Pampers nappy (inset left) allegedly resemble the Prophet's name when written in Arabic or Urdu (inset right), and the image has been branded an 'insult' to Islam by critics. Protesters are now calling for a boycott of Pampers, with video footage viewed more than 175,000 times online showing outraged parents forming pyres out of Pampers Baby Dry Pants in the streets of India and torching whole packets in protest.

Boris Johnson, listening to Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, passed colourful verdict on the Labour leader’s analysis. ‘B***ocks!’ harrumphed the Foreign Secretary. And no, although he was looking towards Emily Thornberry just beforehand, the word was not ‘buttocks’. Can you blame Boris? Mr Corbyn is never terribly good at filleting Government policy. Put it like this, you wouldn’t want him de-boning your Dover sole at Bentley’s fish restaurant. You’d end up with little more than the head and some mushed skin, writes QUENTIN LETTS

It can't be long before it's his turn to be tipped as Tory leader, says Craig Brown, after all, everyone else has been tipped so think how embarrassing it must be for any Tory MP who has been overlooked.

Britain believes the Bashar al-Assad will remain in power in Syria because the West no longer has any leverage to get rid of him as it emerged children have died in his regime’s attacks on rebels. Theresa May and her ministers had repeatedly insisted that Assad must go but eight years into the civil war it has emerged that the Government has decided to adopt a more realistic approach. The UK now accepts Assad will stay in place as long as Russia and Iran want him to. His regime's forces have continued their attack on eastern Ghouta, near Damascus (pictured).

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Eve Muirhead (left, right, inset) is the darling of Britain’s Winter Olympics fans, her competitive spirit and good looks bringing thousands of new fans to the sport of curling. And now Eve Muirhead – the ‘Ice Maiden’ – has boosted Team GB’s prospects of further medal glory in South Korea. After another tense instalment of the sport nicknamed ‘chess on ice’, the British ladies are through to the semi-finals and still have a chance at Olympic gold.

In a hilarious interview with Noisey, Liam answered questions about everything from his favourite Disney film to his feud with his brother Noel. The Oasis singer, 45, labelled Noel 'very naughty' and even mocked his height when one of the children brought up their ongoing quarrel. One little girl wowed Liam with her impression of Big Shaq's 2017 grime anthem Man's Not Hot by saying 'brap, brap, brap!'.

Gucci's Fall/Winter 2018 presentation was arguably the most bizarre show so far this Fashion Month. Creative Director Alessandro Michele appeared to be aiming for maximum oddity, during the show, which was held at the Gucci Hub in Milan on Wednesday. From the setting (a brightly-lid operating theater, complete with overhead LED nights and operating tables) to props (which included dragons, severed heads, and Mexican wrestling-inspired face masks), there wasn't a thing that didn't raise eyebrows at the seriously strange presentation.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence, 27, hit back at critics during an interview in London yesterday, saying the revealing gown was her choice – and she will wear a bikini under a snowsuit next time. The 27-year-old actress told the Daily Mail during an interview at Claridge’s hotel in Mayfair that she wore the dress to Tuesday’s photoshoot in London for her latest film ‘because it was fabulous’. ‘I wasn’t going to cover it up with a coat or why would I wear it? It was Versace,’ she said. ‘I was outside for five minutes and if I choose to be cold then I choose to be cold.'

A series of fascinating photographs by a pioneering female photographer show New York in a state of change in the 1930s. Photographer Berenice Abbott proposed Changing New York, her grand project to document New York City, to the Federal Art Project (FAP) in 1935. The FAP was a Depression-era government program for unemployed artists and workers in related fields such as advertising, graphic design, illustration, photofinishing and publishing.

Grace Bay in the Turks and Caicos, top left, came out on top of the TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Beach awards beating competition from beautiful beaches in Brazil, Cuba and Spain. The top-rated beach in the UK is Bournemouth beach, top right, the No1 in the USA is Clearwater Beach in Florida, bottom left, while Manly Beach is deemed to be the best in Australia. Taking the crown for the best beach in Europe is La Concha Beach in San Sebastian, Spain, bottom right.

Billy Graham says he was called to God on a golf course — at the 18th hole, in fact, of the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club, in Tampa, Florida. One night in 1939, the young Graham — a student working part-time as a caddy — knelt on the green and ‘prostrated myself on the dewy turf’, devoting his life to being a minister of God. His first congregation, he said, were the alligators and cypress stumps on a nearby island that were treated to his first attempts at preaching the Gospel. It was a humble beginning for a man credited with preaching to more people than anyone in history. Graham, who had been suffering from cancer and pneumonia, died peacefully yesterday aged 99 at his home in Montreat, North Carolina.

Stonehenge has a proud place in Britain's history as one of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe. But, according to a major new study, modern-day Britons are barely related to the ingenious Neolithic farmers who built the monument 5,000 years ago (bottom right). Instead the British are related to the 'Beaker people' who travelled from modern-day Holland and all but wiped out Stonehenge's creators (timeline shown left). The research is the largest study of ancient human DNA ever conducted, by an international team of 144 archaeologists and geneticists. An example of beaker pottery is shown top right.

A starving rescue dog, whose weight was half of what it should have been, has now been put on a diet after piling on the pounds in his new home. Ollie the lurcher was found staggering around a field in Stainforth, near Doncaster in December in a terrible condition, weighing just 15.6kg with every bone in his body visible. But now, the three-year old could be put on a diet after his new owner said his weight had ballooned to 27.9kg.

The black Alsatian was some four years old when Miguel Guzman, who had bought the dog as a present for his son, Damian, passed away in 2006 in Villa Carlos Paz, near Cordoba, Argentina's second city. The dog disappeared not long afterwards and the family thought he had found a new home or had been killed. But several months later, on one of their visits to the cemetery during 2007, there was Capitan. To their astonishment, neighbours told them how they started to feed the pet when they realised he slept by the grave each night.

Urban explorers have captured the stunning decay of the former set of Coronation Street. It used to be a famous and bustling street but it's now a derelict wasteland that is hidden away from public view. The decay of Granada's former Coronation Street set in Manchester had remained unseen since it closed but has now been revealed by the new footage.

Missguided has just released its latest wedding collection, with dresses to rival couture gowns starting at a purse-friendly £45 - but can you tell the £1,000 designer frock from the cut-price copycat?

Haunting images show troops inside a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach (left) and gunners wading ashore as reinforcements (top right) along the coast of Normandy, France, on D-Day. Other shots show Lance Corporals A.Burton and L.Barnett of 6th Airborne Division guarding a road junction near Ranville (bottom right) shortly after D-Day. Operation Overlord saw some 156,000 Allied troops landing in Normandy. It is thought as many as 4,400 were killed in an operation Winston Churchill described as 'undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place'. The original black and white photographs were colourised by design engineer Paul Reynolds, 48, from Birmingham.

A seal which nearly choked to death after it was found with a Frisbee stuck around its neck has been released back into the wild. The Atlantic grey had become weaker and weaker as the abandoned plastic disc cut into her neck and was 'nearly dead' when she was found at Horsey beach in Norfolk. After rehabilitation at the RSPCA's East Winch wildlife centre - where staff nicknamed her Mrs Frisbee - she has now been released back into the North Sea to rejoin her colony. Staff said it was a 'miracle' the seal survived the worst injury they had seen in more than two decades. She has since made a full recovery, having ballooned from 67kg (10 stone 7lbs) on admission five months ago to 180kg (28 stone 4lbs) on the day she was released.

Railway fanatic Michael Attle (left picture, right) has spent the past five years transforming his back garden in Drayton, Cambs, into a full length rail platform (top right), complete with three carriages which are is now a restaurant. The idea to add a restaurant into his back garden came to Mr Attle on a trip to a colonial railway station in India, which he then followed through on. Alex Adomete (left image, left), the new managing director at the aptly named Carriages restaurant (bottom right), based in Drayton, Cambs, said: 'The station celebrates the golden age of travel of the 1920s and 1930s. I think customers will be surprised by the attention to detail at the station. A lot of care has gone into sourcing vintage memorabilia, even down to the fire extinguishers. So far it's all gone really well, people love the atmosphere.'

The tiny creature was born at Port Lympne Reserve in Kent last month and she is the 40th black rhino to be born at the reserve, despite the species being renowned for being difficult to breed in captivity.

This is the hilarious moment a pet owner challenges his two dogs to a noodle-eating contest - and gets soundly beaten. The two Golden Retrievers happily take part in a noodle-eating competition with their owner, hastily lapping up the noodles while he labours behind in third. The adorable video captures two dogs apparently named Dan Huang and You Li sitting in front of the dinner table with the plates of food in front of them.

Princess Stephanie, 53, announced on Wednesday that her son Louis Ducruet, 25, is to marry his girlfriend Marie Chevallier. The Palace's announcement, which was kept brief, mentioned the mother's 'joy' at the upcoming nuptials but didn't specify a wedding date. Louis is Stephanie's eldest child with her former husband Daniel Ducruet, who was once the princess' bodyguard, and the grandson of Princess Grace Kelly (pictured, bottom inset, with Stephanie in 1982). Both he and Marie have posted touching engagement photos (left and right) while sharing their happiness with their followers. The pair has been traveling in Vietnam (top inset) and Louis popped the question during the memorable trip.

This the adorable moment make-up artist Suzanne McGowan caught her one-year-old son, Freddy, as he tried to apply fake tan in front of the mirror at their home in Glasgow. Freddy (pictured, right, enjoying a swim) is seen deep in concentration as he brandishes the exfoliating glove and rubs the lotion into his legs. Hilarious footage shows the moment he spots his mother's reflection and tries to act as though nothing is out of the ordinary.

This is the terrifying moment a bolt of lightning struck a Ryanair flight shortly after take-off. A passenger captured the moment the aircraft's left wing was hit in Grenoble, France, on Saturday. Fellow fliers can be heard reacting as the wing rocks up and down while struggling through heavy turbulence.